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oustanding beautiful production made by some positive thinking people of farbrausch!
the colors blew me away at breakpoint when this was shown at the bigscreen (no lsd used!). This production is rocking bigtime!

just as the title said, this is one popular demo. A prod that can be shown to your girlfriend, mother, granny, boss or whoever, who has no clue about demoscene, and wants to know what the hell are you watching, coding day by day...

This is one of the best demo i have seen in my life!
many seems to complain about the soundtrack,
but i must say that i liked it alot!, (great variation in styles).
I have been watching this show for awhile now,
and i cant really find anything to complain about.
Very good work Farbraush! & thanks for the colors!
By this moment iam starting to get very tired of all those: "IDM,industrial,dark,goth with poetic quotes" releases.
And people are talking bout to be innovative.

This is one of the best demo i have seen in my life!
many seems to complain about the soundtrack,
but i must say that i liked it alot!, (great variation in styles).
I have been watching this show for awhile now,
and i cant really find anything to complain about.
Very good work Farbraush! & thanks for the colors!
By this moment iam starting to get very tired of all those: "IDM,industrial,dark,goth with poetic quotes" releases.

I can't believe I'm thumbing up something by Farb-rausch. Fr-08 bored me to death, A Poem to a Horse did the same and most others (except for 010) weren't much better... But this one is just too fun and cute to hate. No complaints except for the godawful singing.

We were doing a disco 64k for Breakpoint, but didn't have time to finish it, and after seeing this i'm glad we didn't, because it looked like complete crap compared to this. This just so fucking beatiful...

What are the machine requirement for this prod ??? For some strange reason it refuses to run on my Dell Dimension 4400 (Pentium 4 2.0ghz, GeForce 3 Ti 500, SbLive, 512 megs)... it just displays a black screen for few seconds, and then exits.

DBug: fr-025 should run on a Geforce2MX at reasonable speed. Everything else is a bug. Actually it is reported to work on even older stuff, but framerate gets really bad.

Till now i got very few bugreports, but there seems to be something fishy. Mostly, i suspect that 32 MB videoram is too "close", sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Please mail me the exact configuration of your gfx-card, ok?

phaser: oh, there is another phaser, sitting right here in hamburg. sorry for that, just guess how many "chaos" i met....

This was one of the MOST impressive demos I ever saw on a a big screen!!! Really great work, fR !!
Breakpoint had so many VERY NICE releases that it was almost unfair to go voting at all !!! It was also VERY hard to decide between the KOLOR demo and this one which should be #1 !! Well, crowd has decided then anyways... ;-D
And I can surely live with that result !!

THIS piece simply BLEW me away when I was sitting at the party at the big screen! And the applause AFTER it was shown simply gave me the complete REST then!! :-D Simply UNBELIEVABLE !!!

+ for design
+ for very fitting music style (mixture between new and oldschool disco!!)
+ for over all presentation and COLORS !!!

Agreed. I cannot stop watching this prod. I'm going to have to rip the mp3 so I can get some work done. Instant classic, indeed. Perfect mesh of code, 3D, music, and graphics. Replace that blurry screenshot!

The scene seems rendered a first time with no lighting enabled, glow colors with inteligently choosen alpha value to a texture, including stencil reflections of the scene.

The rendered content is then copied to a texture (or is it direct rendering to texture?) with auto-mipmap generation enabled. This can be really slow on older hardware or shit drivers because the content of the rendered scene might be downsampled on the CPU, which implies a fucking slow texel transfert between 3d accelerator and system memory.

After this is completed, the 3d scene is rendered completelly, in the same way as an ordinary flybie.

Then, the "glow pass" is acheived, the code looks really similar to radial blurring with a 3d accelerator on that part, except we can notice an intelligent use of LOD to acheive the roundy lighty shape arround objects. To perform transitions, the alpha value of primary color is simply increased during the transition to saturate the screen to white.

All in all, this falls in the genre of effect improved flybies, and as a result, even if I enjoyed watching it 2 or 3 times, I don't know if I will remenber that demo in a few months. Magia by TBL is 10 times more impressive in my taste.

One of the best fr productions ever and one of the only fr productions with a pretty good design thats smooth.
The music rocks, it's perfect for that kind of demo, and the visuals even rocks too. Farbrausch even

....ha, der neue farbrausch produktion, where is my spyglass or microscope ??? :) Everything is amazing, design is perfect, I simply love that "farbrausch-tm" textures, visuals are amazing except those kitchy fonts and "not so good" vocal in music (this vocal reminds me that crappy vocals from 333 demo from Acme) ..... i like KB´s vocals in "IN CONTROL" much

funkaaay!
I especially liked that "Billy Jean" inspired part with the leaves...
I was pleaseantly surprised to see it running quite smoothly on my old Celeron 800 / GF2MX400 :) finally something better than all those industrial demos.. i want more like that!

As far as production values go, FR has again raised the bar. Could easily sit beside any video on MTV... really. It's so flawlessly designed and executed, i'm surprised no one's hired them to make commericals yet. KEEPS MY FAITH IN THE DEMOSCENE ALIVE! btw: most all the breakpoint demos have raised the bar - get them all!

BTW : I have win 2k s well and it crashes too : will it be possiblme to fix that ( please ...... ) i feel somewhat frustrated not be able to see thais little gem at home : the strange thing is taht other FR demos / intros work fucking well....

Wow. Farbrausch, thanks for a massive inspiration boost... you're making it hard for us c64 guys to keep up now, though. But we'll definately try! ;) Lyrics were a bit *hmm* but for the rest, everything was killer, start to finish. Respect!

well, i've always respected fr, but between the demo with josie and this one i can say that my only reservation has been evaporated.. i thought they lacked soul, but a demo and an intro prove me very wrong.. at any rate, i have to say, i think the vocals here rock.. i defy any of the nay sayers to find me a eurodisco track with male vocals that is any better than this.. in fact, i've got it stuck in my head right now. and as for being an mtv video clip, well, whatever, there's all sorts of dope code in here that qualifies this as top o' the line demo material.. just to be judicious i'll mention two minor negatives.. a) it's too short and b) the funky dancin' was done better in digital murder's just a touch of funk.. judged on it's own terms though, this is much too good a bit of digital crack for anyone to be scoffing at when they're getting supplied for free.

Well, another real good demo by FR... Actually, i've just been watching fr-030, so i first though the vocals were indeed vocoded... Seems they're not indeed... Very nice idea to keep the meshes, would i say, flat-shaded? Well, not exactly, but anyway. I really love it. It'd been better with another kind of music, but it's a thing about tastes.
A further comment, it's too bad there are so few different actual choregraphies. I only seen three different. Maybe i'm wrong? Oh, and a few sparkles would fit the ambiance perfectly...

the 'star academy' in action, real time video clip, i like this way
too much german dance music
same effects in fr019, they are great
too much the same moves of the men, allways the same men
not fantastic but it's good prod

Nice and polished visuals. Good music. Animation could be better. The dancehall looks a little unfinished. Maybe a bit too short. Otherwise very decent prod!
I had it running fine with Catalyst 3.4, W2K and Radeon 9000, but after I installed DirectX9, it stopped working... :(

actually, we just noticed a content bug in the final and prepare a "final final". so there will be a new download link in 30-60 minutes.... everyone with a slow internet connection should wait for that.

Thanks for the final, but I have to say I don't like the new mix of the tune. What happened to all the bass? Also the people-dancing-on-an-lp part looks a lot worse now.. Oh well, at least it (apparently) works with most machines now :)

I love finals ;) Please more finals ;)
It works well and amazingly fast on a poor P3-700 gf2mx.
I love the concept of this demo, now it's time to a make a comic super hero demo ;) The overall quality is excelent because you are professionnal scener, and I like this almost prefect work. Only the music could have been better, I like wayfinder trance, but house/dance soundtrack here is just ok. Respect.

The final was as good as the orignal one.
Resived 15354 pop.stones at 1024x768.. is that good or?? The benchmark option is a fun feature, perhaps computer magazines in sweden could change their out dated QuakeIII benchmarking with a brand new fr-25 test ;)

blue 7: actually there are a lot of visual tweaks in the final version (animation, camera, models, material, light, sync...). as most of them are rather detail improvements than radical changes, the effect might be subliminal. yet, if you´d directly compare both versions, the improvement would become obvious.
unfortunately the general problem with final versions is, that some people will always prefer certain aspects of the original version over the new ones. e.g. it´s a bit strange to see that lots of people complained about the bad vocals and now that the final is out, many others want them back :)
personally i prefer the new vocals a lot. yet, this, as everthing else, is a matter of taste...

I can now safely confirm this is the best demo I have ever seen. I liked the party version just fine, but the animation felt a little stiff in that version. I absolutely love the way the guy wiggles his hips now.

Well, when I compare this thing to the demos that were done 10 years ago, I come to think: What will demos look like in 2013, if this trend continues? Will they be so mind-blasting that you get stoned from just watching them? I cannot believe that a better demo is possible. Please fr, prove me wrong at bp04!

First time I saw the room with the colored light panels, I nearly s**t my pants. :) I love this demo because sceners and nonsceners can enjoy it. Beautiful, tightly directed, and the scenes are nicely varied. Very professional-sounding music, too -- great work all-around.

seems like i haven't commented on this one yet.
it's enjoyable alright, but a bit short on ideas. the music could've been a lot better (and a lot more 70s disco'ish). i mean, come on :) the vocals made me laugh.

Ahh.... downloaded the Demo after it was released on scene org - and i watch this Masterpiece still a lot of Times :) Fantastic Music... Can't get enough of it - Wayfinder, release a sequel to this Masterpiece :) Really The best Demo i ever watched and the best music i've ever heard so far :)

Very good prod, It is really true that sceners and non sceners can enjoy it as well. This is the first prod that knoced my girlfriend off ;)
Seriously prods like this attract people to the scene. I actually trashed my current project after watching this ;)))

it's a nice demo, although the music is quite non-great, and the demo doesn't run on my computer :) (i should start demanding divx of all demos that don't run on my computer, since everyone demands a divx of non-pc demos ;)

I already thumbed this up, but I'd like to point out that it's the only prod I've checked so far that can be set for 16x10 aspect ratio (no letterboxing), just like my widescreen laptop screen.
Major respect to Farbrausch!

Great Demo. Some months before I first saw it I was sitting with another democoder at a club watching the mirrorball, and we talked about cool stuff you could do in a disco demo.. so seeing this was like "yep, that's how we thought it should be done.. only better" :)

it blew my mind the first time I've seen this prod and regave me interest in the demoscene... everything is great and especially the music (I prefer the first version because of the so huge bass! still don't understand how W@yfinder succedeed in making a final master with so much dB while keeping a great dynamic making my audio monitor crazy!)

Yo listen up, here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees
Is just blue like him inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue Corvette and everything is blue for him
And his self and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen (to listen, to listen, to listen)

I have a blue house with a blue window
Blue is the color of all that I wear
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here that walk around
Blue like my Corvette, it's standing outside
Blue are the words I say and what I think
Blue are the feelings that live inside me

How could I have forgotton this Prod. since I did the screen shot, My wife can't stop playing it, and we both agree that this is the kind of demo where you see effects create other effects.
Another code well done

Whoa this is probably the best Farbrausch demo!
btw: it's not Mode13h and it's not 256 Colors LOL
hmm... gotta watch it once again... :D
I wouldn't have expected it to run good in 1600*1200 but it's gotta be around 1500 fps on my Pentium 4 1.8 :O
Definetly the best Demo i ever saw!

kema: it was made in Fardrausch's own tool, Werkzeug, which is a relatime media creation system, which you may find in the tools section. A few models and character animation were done separately in Softvision and imported into the tool.

this prod is definately all that!
one guy i study multimedia design with blatantly copied this with poser, maya and some motioncaptures dl'ed form the net.
when i asked him if he knew 'bout the scene and fr-025 he answered that he never heard of either.. whateva..

One of the best ever. I'm looking straight forward to breakpoint 2005. After 2004 and some old parts spilled to together to something like a demo I feel in my urin this year will come something shocking again. My 2 Cents.

btw. the soundscore is a copy: or should i rather say that it was inspired? by some pop song from the break of 80s and 90s called `Night in Motion`. the atmosphere of that song and this soundtrack is quite the same. (it's mentioned nowhere within the demo, though.. :-( )

btw. the soundscore is a copy: or should i rather say that it was inspired? by some pop song from the break of 80s and 90s called `Night in Motion`. the atmosphere of that song and this soundtrack is quite the same. (it's mentioned nowhere within the demo, though.. :-( )

I know the song you are talking about (from U96), it has nothing to do about Wayfinder's one, I don't know what you are talking about :/

This demo blew me away! I had been away from the scene for seven years and couldn't even imagine how far demos had come. The colorful dancefloor used in the screenshot is the best scene. With motion capture used to animate the dancing robots The Popular Demo would have been perfect!

the popular demo carries its name with pride // popular, available and accessable yow! // and all packed with a demoscene flavour // if you keep the title on your mind, this is just perfect in what it is

That's odd, when I first came to this link, it said 99% popularity, now it says 100% popularity. But, well, duh, the popular demo. Anyway. What I wanted to say was now that I know what the words are to the tune, I have to say the lyrics are EXTREMELY well written, and this is the best lyrical tune I have yet heard from the scene.

I love this demo more and more :]
Colors and pixels are so neat. The music is teh shit, I have the chords in my head, and like to play them on my old roland xp 50 with a rhode patch ;) Give me the mid!!

shows what modern pcs can do, but fails to amaze me in other ways. it's well designed, has a shiny layer of coating, but neither the music nor the choreography are MTV video music awards class... this is all leaving my tastes out of view, because i really fucking hate disco!! ;)

short: thumb up for technical side and shiny polish, but fails to amaze me otherwise and i dislike the theme..

My 1st Xperience with this Demo was more than a wow-adrenaline-show & 1 day perhaps the mr. 'disco-kugel on the head' will lead us to an another great popular-demo. ThanX FR for this Demo & a big ThanX to Wayfinder for his Soundtrack & Tonight, tonight the City is groovin'

magic:i guess the second version of 025 maybe produced under .wz3 which fr less mention it without their fans' concern.. fan like me are so respect to this kickass group but it seems that a delay mind have to be.

I can't believe it that people thumb it down. That one is really a masterpiece of elegance with no exception. (i need a second thumb for it ;) )
This piece of code should work on every average gfx-card. VGA is not up-to-date anymore ;)
Well musicvideos are demos too, musicians demonstrate viewers something.

Of course a popular demo! ;) But it can't mess with those beautiful 64k demos. > for me unexciting, unrefreshing & too commercialy :)
@thumb downs: There is a lot of realtime & creativity in this demo, too (no video or animation). Is it so hard to recognize the differenz?

It's really hard to vote consistently, and this intro is particulary tough one: I know the code has to be good and the visuals look pro. but the overall visual and audio impression it gives makes me want to vomit. Also there are no innovative visual effects, so it feels empty and hollow. I have had a hard time understanding the appeal of this one.

y kb, lets keep it to "it starts on a fg2mx" ;)
the gf2gts has been my actual card on bp-03.
Never the less this demo is perfect to show women what demos are. They mostly can't touch the mfx-stuff-alike =)

I'm not a fan of the disco thing, but it was a fun demo... My only suggestion is to watch the speed of the camera in that one room with the pillars and stuff (where the guy's walking and the camera rotates around him). It made me feel dizzy, which was actually kinda cool. haha

+ for code and really professional output, - for lack of real innovation, repetition, a style that (while great in its own class) i didn't like at all and a horrible soundtrack. i've heard a lot cheesier and better disco humppa's than this.

fuck you trx, of course i can thumb down a demo if it's style is hideous in my opinion :-) there are far better scene prods than this but as said earlier, popular != not always the best choice. but it's ok, tad better than average grey mass.

The 'final2' version doesn't work with latest nvidia-drivers (163.71) and e.g. a GF8800 GTX card properly anymore! :-((((((

For example the first scene with the stairs when the doors open and the figure is stepping down the stairs the screen is almost dark and you'll only see the shining-effect from behind the figure! :-/
More similar scenes during the ongoing of the demo coming up later, too!

So, is there gonna be a 'final3' version soon??? *praying for it at least!!* :-)

Ryg:
It's luckily true, it seems! :-D
With the currently latest nvidia drivers (v163.75) everything is working fine again and you can enjoy fr025 in full effect without any problems!
(tested on a 8600GTS chipset with 256mb)

Just to let everyone else know here as well, whoever might have wondered about similar problems before! ;-)

gf8 series drivers are still kinda dodgy (pretty bad considering those cards have been around for quite some time now). from what i've seen on pouet, there are problems with a lot of demos, not just our ones...

nope, it's mostly because the g80 is very different from previous nv parts, guess it took them quite some time to figure out how to actually use the hw efficiently... in any case, it involves a rewrite of a lot their code, so it's pretty bug-prone.

"For example the first scene with the stairs when the doors open and the figure is stepping down the stairs the screen is almost dark and you'll only see the shining-effect from behind the figure! :-/
More similar scenes during the ongoing of the demo coming up later, too!"

Go to "3D Options" in the nvidia control panel and set "Antialiasing - Gamma Correction" to "off". Now it will work perfectly! Stupid nvidia features... :)

This demo is so ... different :D I understand it's a reference to many popular songs (and after seeing the .k1 source even more so) and it does it absolutely perfect! The music is what you expect from a popular tune - catchy, simple, with instant hooks, visuals are - well, just say DISCO, and even the kitschy font fits! This is absolutely 100% spot on and perfectly put together.

Tonight, tonight, it's all in motion,
can't feel the gravity.
Tonight, tonight, what is this potion,
that makes a fool of me?
Tonight, tonight, I'm seeing stars,
I'm blind with love.
Tonight, tonight, we're Venus and Mars,
looking from above.

Tonight, tonight, I feel like grooving,
like flying endlessly.
Tonight, tonight, the city's grooving,
they're dancing all for me.
Tonight, tonight, the perfect night,
the only one.
Tonight, tonight, I'm holding you tight,
tomorrow you will be gone.

Tonight, tonight, it's all in motion,
can't feel the gravity.
Tonight, tonight, what is this potion,
that makes a fool of me?
Tonight, tonight, I'm seeing stars,
I'm blind with love.
Tonight, tonight, we're Venus and Mars,
looking from above.

Tonight, tonight, I feel like grooving,
like flying endlessly.
Tonight, tonight, the city's grooving,
they're dancing all for me.
Tonight, tonight, the perfect night,
the only one.
Tonight, tonight, I'm holding you tight,
tomorrow you will be gone.

I never understood why this is and was so "popular". It's a fine demo, but make it one of the all-time greatest demos made? Please.."Debris", the top demo, is not just better than this one, it's HUGELY better - despite the years that separate them - at all levels, and several ASD's productions are TREMENDOUSLY better aswell.

But hey, its a nice product, just not my cup of tea. A piggy for that.

@soueusou i actually dont think debris is better. it may be technical superior (it also has 4 years in advance) but the style of this prod is just unchallenged. and yes ive seen it back in 2003 already (when i didnt care for a pouet account or commenting or shit) and i can still watch it over and over. it just delivers.

It should be called the.POPular.product, I dont' see anything very much impressive in it, just a well made disco theme (which I don't like) to please the masses. A Justin Bieber or Hannah Montana of the demoscene. I'd thumb it down if it wasn't a clever marketing success of Farbrausch. And I'd thumb it up if it was 64k. So, piggie.